niggardliness

IPA: nˈɪgɝdɫinʌs

Examples of "niggardliness" in Sentences

Baghdad’; for niggardliness is the worst fault a man can have.
I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance.
It's not the complete idiocy of it that I mind, it's the boldfaced niggardliness of it all.
She is a girl who takes your love for granted in the same way as she gives hers, without niggardliness.
When their suspicions of our niggardliness or lack of peanuts had been confirmed, Jones half-turned his back on his life-partner and gave me his story.
But for all its fumbling and niggardliness, the Overland honored itself by publishing the story, begged for more, and eventually published nine of the young author's Yukon classics.
To maintain, month after month, supplies for so large an armament, was next to impossible; and to this much more than to the "niggardliness" of the Queen, [Footnote: Laughton, i., pp. lvii ff.
The deficiency of this state of character is called niggardliness, the excess vulgarity, lack of taste, and the like, which do not go to excess in the amount spent on right objects, but by showy expenditure in the wrong circumstances and the wrong manner; we shall speak of these vices later.